On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Brenda Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: >> I wouldn't sign that as it is worded so poorly as to be meaningless. > > The petition text is short - it says: > "I don't want Guilt Upon Accusation laws that will force the > termination of internet connections and websites without evidence, and > without a fair trial." > > Which part of this is not accurate? > >> >> There is no "Copyright Amendment Act" it is the "Copyright (New >> Technologies) Amendment Act 2008". > > meh. splitting hares.
or rabbits maybe? > >> >> Section 92 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 does >> not do what is alleged. Section 53 possibly does. > > The commerce commission disagrees with you Nick. > http://coffee.geek.nz/consumers-institute-submission-nz-copyright-act-s92a.html > section 53 of the amendment act inserts a number of provisions in the principal act (the copyright act 1994). It inserts sections 92A to 92E after sec 92. s 92B-E are in force now (since 31.10.08). s 92A comes into force on 28 February 2009. see http://legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2008/0411/latest/DLM1689424.html#DLM1689424 for the website the OP pointed to to say "52 days until guilt upon accusation is voted on in NZ" is rubbish. The amendment bill was voted on, and passed into law (becoming the mamendment act) on 11 April 2008 (the date it received royal assent). It was mandated to come into force on a date to be appointed by the government. The government has already appointed the date for the provisions we object to to come into force. There is no further "vote" required or anticipated. Also you now have a new government that is even closer to big business and all that stands behind the new law. Getting it repealed is very unlikely. > So does the Telecommunications Carriers Forum, InternetNZ, ISP > Association of New Zealand (ISPANZ), Telecommunications Users Asccociation of > New Zealand (TUANZ), The New Zealand Computer Society, Women in Technology > New Zealand, New Zealand Open Source Society... and a heap more. > http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/uploads/PDFs/CopyrightActMediaRelease.pdf > > The sum of the new copyright act is ISPs are required to disconnect you > apon repeated accusation of copyright infringement. Due process is > skipped. No it requires ISPs to have a policy. It doesn't say what the policy has to be. I agree the new law is an ass. But if you want to oppose it, at least know what you are opposing and the state of the law.
